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Morphological and population genomic evidence that human faces have evolved to signal individual identity.

Nature communications - 16 Sept 2014

Sheehan Michael J, Nachman Michael W

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Facial recognition plays a key role in human interactions, and there has been great interest in understanding the evolution of human abilities for individual recognition and tracking social relationships. Individual recognition requires sufficient cognitive abilities and phenotypic diversity within a population for discrimination to be possible. Despite the importance of facial recognition in humans, the...

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PMID: 25226282
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5800
PMCID: PMC4257785

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